Sheesh, that is a lot of material that is going to waste in the process of making. That stuff get recycled? I'm all for making stuff that pushes the limits and therefore pushes the art, but seriously, this table has an incredibly high embodied energy. Cool design, but don't think it's worthy of becoming a 'product' to be manufactured.

Sheesh ! You would think people would read the 1st paragraph description before commenting....

:-)

I disagree. It is beautiful and it is aluminum so the shavings can be recycled (more energy being used). Sure, there is a lot of embodied energy, but there is a ton of embodied energy and waste in the beloved Macbook. Same process on a much much larger scale. That thing starts as a solid block of aluminum and gets machined out and how many of those get made daily?? A hell of a lot more than 10.

Why not just include the perforation pattern in the table top mold/casting process? That will eliminate the tedious CNC drilling. -Not too keen on the grandma-looking, Art Deco, fluted legs, but they do knock down so you have an almost flat pack reducing the cost of shipping. Change the legs out to steel tube, and you'll have a nice Ikea product for $199.99

Four weeks of production on one table. That's a lot of waste, it's not worth it.

its not a patch on Marc Newson's Event horizon table which was done over ten years ago!

Foolish. These things should be forbidden by law...too much waste produced, and the time spent for obtaining one machined piece is far too long. It would be like producing an Air Chair by rapid prototyping, nonsense !
The shape is nice. It recalls me some of Marc Newson bolid designs...

Wasteful? Who cares! Its beautiful.
It sure is nice to see the actual table instead of a rendering of some product that will never be produced.

"These things should be forbidden by law...too much waste produced" - Guybrush

Guybrush, are you kidding? Your lack of logic is stunning. You need a lesson in the economies of scale. I really hope you did not write your post on a Mac, read Zach above. Who cares if its on the CNC for 4 hours, it's a quantity of 10!!

The Environmental Fascism that has infiltrated the arts and design has gone unchecked and now wants to judge an art project based on energy use. How ironic. Do we need an Art Police that calculates the embodied energy use of projects around the world? What next in the name of mother earth?

I think it's gorgeous. Well worth the effort that goes into making it. And even if it wasn't beautiful, it's art. It's wasteful by nature. What did the Mona Lisa contribute to society? Less than this table. You certainly can't eat off it.

The holes aren't incorporated in the mould because there isn't a mould. It's all drilled. The CNC drill gets a much nicer finish than you could get from moulding alone.

I doubt the shavings are wasted. It's aluminium, they just melt it down and make another block.

looks nice ..the legs look like they are kinda stuck on there don't flow to well..but it still is a nice piece...what is the price????

de$igner, if this were an Ikea table, it would be many times more wasteful than the limited edition run above. Despite Ikea's best efforts towards sustainability, their furniture is generally regarded as disposable. When people move to a new apartment with less space, or need to make some room, the Ikea furniture is the first thing to go. I can't even begin to count how many broken Ikea Lack tables, or unwanted Malm beds I see on the street around the first of every month when people move into new apartments. Ikea's mission to bring affordable, decently designed furniture to the masses is met with the wasteful nature of consumerism.

The ten people who buy this table won't be taking it to the curb in six months when their lease is up. Even if they did, the materials that comprise this table can be easily recycled. This table is an heirloom, not something you buy because you're fresh out of college, clueless, and broke.

this is brilliant. it's going to be in museums 300 years from now and only then many future generations will see what we produced in 2009.

P.S. waste IS cheap "design" that has no impact on human history.

the fluted legs just don't mate well with the top. and i don't know, this thing just doesn't seem like so magical, from a modeling perspective. i'd be hoping for more, like some hidden detail on the underside. but maybe it's just those legs that kill it for me. moving on....

>>What did the Mona Lisa contribute to society? Less than this table.(....)

What a stupid and ignorant thing to say. Get yourself some education!

This table has no doubt a strong and interesting concept, but unfortunately
not taken far enough to be considered 'art' (from the contemporary arts perspective where almost anything can be considered 'art')
To be considered as art it would need to stretch beyond the previous work of designers such as Hadid Newson Lovegrove all of whom have submitted furniture as art. It apes the same aesthetic as many of these previous 'art' pieces of furniture and so doesn't bring anything unique or challenging to the fore. (apart from the shear scale
of a machined aluminium billet which one appreciates from watching the film) The final product falls short in it's overall proportions particularly the legs and fails to deliver a lasting sense of uniqueness. But this is just my opinion and both art and design are extremely subjective fields.

I like the table but I think top should be done in a mold/casting process.